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Additional Reading
Anthony Everitt, Cicero: The Life and Times of Romeās Greatest Politician (2001); and Gesine Manuwald, Cicero (2014), are biographies for the general reader.
Cicero the lawyer is discussed in Abel H.J. Greenridge, The Legal Procedure of Ciceroās Time (1901, reprinted 1971); and Robert N. Wilkin, Eternal Lawyer (1947). General intellectual studies are Harold A.K. Hunt, The Humanism of Cicero (1954); and Neal Wood, Ciceroās Social and Political Thought (1988). T.A. Dorey (ed.), Cicero (1965), is a collection of essays by seven Ciceronian scholars. Ciceroās life in politics is discussed in W.K. Lacey, Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic (1978); Christian Habicht, Cicero the Politician (1990); Thomas N. Mitchell, Cicero: The Ascending Years (1979), and Cicero: The Senior Statesman (1991); and Kathryn Tempest, Cicero: Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome (2011). Henry J. Haskell, This Was Cicero (1942, reissued 1964), is a lively account; as is David Stockton, Cicero: A Political Biography (1971, reissued 1978). David R. Shackleton Bailey, Cicero (1971), is written by a scholar with exceptional knowledge of the Letters. Beryl Rawson, The Politics of Friendship: Pompey and Cicero (1978), is a political history of Rome from Sulla to Caesar.
Major Works
Speeches
Pro Quinctio (81), Pro Roscio Amerino (80 or early 79), Pro Roscio Comoedo (77?), In Caecilium divinatio, In Verrem actio I, actio II, 1ā5 (70), Pro Tullio, Pro Fonteio, Pro Caecina (69), Pro Lege Manilia, Pro Cluentio (66), Contra Rullum IāIII, Pro Rabirio, In Catilinam IāIV, Pro Murena (63), Pro Sulla, Pro Archia (62), Pro Flacco (59), Post reditum ad Quirites and Post reditum in Senatu, De domo sua (57), De haruspicum responso, Pro Sestio, In Vatinium, Pro Caelio, De provinciis consularibus, Pro Balbo (56), In Pisonem (55), Pro Plancio, Pro Rabirio Postumo (54), Pro Milone (52), Pro Marcello, Pro Ligario (46), Pro rege Deiotaro (45), Philippicae IāXIV (44ā43).
Critical
De inventione (84), De oratore IāIII (55), Oratoriae partitiones (54?), De optimo genere oratorum (52), De republica IāVI (51; completed 52), Brutus, Paradoxa Stoicorum, Orator (46), Academica IāII, De finibus IāV, Tusculanae disputationes IāV, De natura deorum IāIII, De divinatione IāII, De fato, De senectute, De amicitia, De officiis IāIII, Topica (45ā44), De legibus (begun in 52 but published posthumously).
Letters
Ad Atticum IāXVI, Ad familiares IāXVI, Ad Quintum fratrem IāIII, Ad Brutum IāII.
Translations
Translations of the major works of Cicero are presented in The Basic Works of Cicero, ed. by Moses Hadas (1951). Other recommended translations are: Selected Works, by Michael Grant (1960, reprinted with revisions 1971); Nine Orations and the Dream of Scipio, by Palmer Bovie (1967, reprinted 1988); Selected Letters, by P.G. Walsh (2008); Letters to Friends, by D.R. Shackleton Bailey (2001); On the Commonwealth, by George Holland Sabine and Stanley Barney Smith (1929); On Moral Obligation: A New Translation of Ciceroās De Officiis, by John Higginbotham (1967); and Cicero on the Art of Growing Old, by Herbert Newell Couch (1959).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Add new Web site: History Today - Cicero. | Nov 08, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Nightlife - This Week in History: The Death of Cicero. | Sep 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Libertarianism.org - CiceroĀs Natural Law and Political Philosophy. | Aug 02, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopaedia Romana - The Life of Cicero. | May 23, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 19, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences - Cicero on Constitution, Government and Ethics (PDF). | Feb 07, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Great Thinkers - Cicero. | Dec 10, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 18, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Texas at Austin - Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services - The Cicero Homepage. | Oct 20, 2023 | ||
| Links added. | Jul 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Online Library of Liberty - Marcus Tullius Cicero. | Jun 19, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - Cicero, The Great Roman Orator. | May 10, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Cicero. | Sep 20, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Basics of Philosophy - Marcus Tullius Cicero. | Feb 14, 2021 | ||
| Changed title from āCicero, Marcus Tulliusā to āCicero.ā | Dec 10, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic - Cicero. | Feb 14, 2019 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Oct 04, 2018 | ||
| Image of bust of Cicero added. | Mar 08, 2017 | ||
| Corrected cross-reference. | Mar 08, 2017 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | May 12, 2015 | ||
| Major works section revised. | May 12, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: European Graduate School - Biography of Marcus Tullius Cicero. | Dec 30, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: UNRV History - Biography of Marcus Tullius Cicero. | Dec 19, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Cicero. | Dec 19, 2013 | ||
| Major works section revised and updated. | Feb 22, 2013 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 14, 2011 | ||
| Bibliography thoroughly revised. | Feb 14, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress - Biography of Calvin Coolidge. | Aug 14, 2007 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Biography of Cicero. | Jun 14, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Aug 09, 1999 | ||
| Article revised. | Apr 02, 1999 |